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The festival portal for the purchase of bus transfer tickets from Rome Fiumicino airport to Perugia town centre (and back) is now online. This service is available for festival speakers (free, by using a coupon provided by the festival) and festival attendees (by payment). The festival provides this service in order to facilitate the trip from Rome Fiumicino airport to Perugia (and back). The full timetable of bus transfers is on the portal. We advise speakers and attendees to buy their tickets well before the start of the festival.
Nieman Lab predictions for journalism 2026. Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here’s what they told us
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law. Lai, who turned 78 behind bars last week, was found guilty of two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the Beijing-imposed national security law, and a third count of sedition under colonial-era legislation
Inside Haaretz, Israel’s voice of dissent. The newspaper is revered and reviled for its unflinching coverage of the Gaza war. Can it survive a possible future succession crisis? By Alan Rusbridger
Inside SPOTLIGHT Gelsenkirchen: CORRECTIV’s café-newsroom experiment reimagines local journalism. The pilot project, SPOTLIGHT Gelsenkirchen, aims to rethink how local journalism is produced and how communities engage with it
Third annual Floodlight Summit connects top global investigative journalists with international entertainment creators to fuel screen adaptations. Launched in 2023, Floodlight connects investigative reporting with the film and television industry to produce informed fiction in the public interest
Is the article dead? Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it? By Ben Werdmuller
McKinsey’s 100 best interviews of 2025 capture powerful ideas from the world’s top founders, CEOs, leaders, teachers, and authors—offering inspiration and perspective as you look ahead to 2026.
What newsroom product managers want the C-suite to know. Product managers are often thought of by colleagues as a subset of engineers, but they see themselves as carrying out a much more existential role: fusing technological, business, audience and editorial considerations in order to make their newsrooms sustainable
The internet is breaking — but it’s not too late to make it better. Platform retreat and Trump policies are doing serious damage to information accuracy online. But there are signs of hope for change and rebuilding. By Angie Drobnic Holan
Media Confidential: does “no-platforming” have a place in journalism? Alan and Lionel are joined by Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of the Economist. They discuss how to cover far-right politics and whether a reporter should ever avoid interviewing divisive figures
Beyond news: building the community operating system. It has been 12 years since Village Media began. In an industry defined by contraction, we have rewritten the playbook. By Jeff Elgie
AP introduces AP Verify to strengthen, streamline online content verification. The Associated Press today introduced AP Verify, a verification dashboard combining AI-powered features with established digital verification tools to transform the way newsrooms authenticate online photos, videos and other digital content
This German investigative outlet created a newsroom of teenagers. Here’s what they learnt from them. In 2020 nonprofit Correctiv launched Salon5, a project training teen-aged volunteers to produce news content
Russia labels Deutsche Welle ‘undesirable organization.’ According to Russian media reports, the Russian public prosecutor’s office has classified DW as an “undesirable organization.” The Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has welcomed the decision
Photo credit: Nikita Roy, author of the 2026 Nieman Lab prediction for journalism entitled AI will rewrite the architecture of the newsroom, at #ijf25 by Francesco Cuoccio